We used to think of “addiction”, or what we now call dependence, as a moral failing. This had the result of blaming the person who was addicted – it was a matter of willpower and they just weren’t trying hard enough. So the obvious solution was shaming and scolding until they did. In the mid-20th

In the harsh politics surrounding alcohol and other drug use, there is often an expectation that AOD practitioners should ‘push’ for behavior change in clients even when they don’t want to. But behaviour change without motivation is coercion and very few people make major life changes when pushed. A more effective (and ethical) approach to